The NAACP’s assimilationist, colorist ranks pushed Garvey toward Black separatism

Evidence

The Great Migration overshadowed a smaller migration of people from the Caribbean and Africa to the United States. A young, well-read, charismatic Jamaican with a passion for African people and an understanding of racism arrived in New York in March 1916 to raise funds for a school in Jamaica. … His organizing principles were global African solidarity, the beauty of dark skin and African American culture, and global African self-determination. “Africa for the Africans,” he liked to say. His UNIA quickly attracted antiracists, Black working people, and Black migrants and immigrants who did not like the colorism, class racism, assimilationism, and nativism of the NAACP and the Talented Tenth. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 810

Categorization

• XREF: Directly extends the reader’s guiding thread: the NAACP’s assimilationism as a racist position repelling Garvey is a case exemplifying why assimilationism counts as racist. Connects to Part One’s defining of assimilationist thought.
• ADDENDUM: The UNIA as a working-class, immigrant, antiracist counterweight to the Talented Tenth parallels the class/identity dynamics in the essays on immodesty panics and sacrifice.